Flora

Clypeola jonthlaspi L.

Family: Brassicaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Apr.

General Appearance

Clypeola jonthlaspi L it is an annual herb. Stems up to 5-15 cm, slender, ascending or spreading, simple or branched. Leaves oblanceolate-linear to oblong-obovate, up to 20 x 1.5-4 mm, entire. Flowers c. 1.5 mm across, yellowish. Pedicels up to 4 mm long in fruit, filiform, recurved. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long. Petals 1-2 mm long, with sub emarginate apex. Stamens 1-1.5 mm, filaments denticulate. Fruiting raceme usually short or slightly elongated, dense, with pedicels arching outwards. Silicles relatively quite large (about 4 mm in diameter), orbicular, flat-compressed, pubescent, rarely glabrous. Seed occupying barely a quarter of the locule.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED+SA+IT. The native range of this species is S. Central Europe, Medit. to W. Pakistan and Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Misurata 2006

Jabal Nafusa: Reported from Tarhuna, Wadi Terswa, Ras Maader by Pampanini Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:281341-1

Link of images: https://flora.org.il/en/plants/CLYJON/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=501498

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:281341-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/281341-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000612598, https://www.gbif.org/species/5375313, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/141088/clypeola-jonthlaspi-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2062.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_clypeole.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/CLYJON/, https://botany.cz/cs/clypeola-jonthlaspi/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=501498, https://dryades.units.it/lamone/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=1498&num=5045, https://bgflora.net/families/brassicaceae/clypeola/clypeola_jonthlaspi/clypeola_jonthlaspi_en.html

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Ali, S.I. & Jafri, S.M.H. (1977) Flora of Libya, Brassicaceae Vol. (23) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 135.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District – Libya. 2020

Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341306643_Floristic_Study_and_Species_Diverisy_of_Msallata-Garaboulli_Province_in_Libya

Floristic Study and Species Diverisy of Msallata-Garaboulli Province. 2020

Mohammed, S.A.H. (2008) A taxonomic and ecological study of the plants of the Shaafin Reserve in Masalatah. Master Thesis. Department of Biology-Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Al-Mirqab University. Al-Khums. Libya. (In Arabic).

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).